Re: [opensuse-factory] Printing in openSUSE 10.3

2007-03-13 Thread Klaus Singvogel
Hi. sorry for delay, but had the flue last week... Chris Rivera wrote: On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 12:33 +0100, Klaus Singvogel wrote: We need to mention that the current hal backend needs to be extended to satisfy the new requirements, which actual CUPS system expects from backends. But it

Re: [opensuse-factory] Printing in openSUSE 10.3

2007-03-13 Thread Klaus Singvogel
JP Rosevear wrote: On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 12:33 +0100, Klaus Singvogel wrote: JP Rosevear wrote: [...] entirely impossible, there is some code in /usr/bin/add-unknown-printer (part of the gnome-volume-manager) to do some of this. We need to mention that the current hal backend needs

Re: [opensuse-factory] cvsgraph?

2007-03-13 Thread Andreas Vetter
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, Cristian Rodriguez R. wrote: Andreas Vetter escribió: Thank you for support. That's exactly my point of view. I personally prefer quality over quantity... however took five minutes to create a cvsgraph package and should be available shortly at:

Re: [opensuse-factory] Printing in openSUSE 10.3

2007-03-13 Thread Klaus Singvogel
JP Rosevear wrote: On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 10:58 +0100, Johannes Meixner wrote: [...] Your info is too terse for me. I still do not understand the end-user's situation. Please do not misunderstand me - I don't want to do nitpicking. But I need to understand the whole picture from the

Re: [opensuse-factory] no cdrecord

2007-03-13 Thread andreas . hanke
Hi, In a separate deprecated package cdrkit-cdrtools-compat. Does it get installed in the update case? In most cases it should be, because packages which need the cdrecord symlink should require cdrecord and this is only provided by cdrkit-cdrtools-compat. E.g. if k3b is installed, it

Re: [opensuse] Lexmark X4270

2007-03-13 Thread Johannes Meixner
Hello, On Mar 12 23:47 Fred A. Miller wrote (shortened): On Monday 12 March 2007 9:56:09 pm Joseph Loo wrote: Have you looked at the Lexmark site. They have a printer driver for linux. I can not vuch how good it is but they are suppose to work okay. There is a driver kit

[opensuse] Default umask for new users, where?

2007-03-13 Thread Verner Kjærsgaard
Hi list, - this is a short one... - when I create a new user, the home-dir for that user is created with a umask of 022. I wish to use, say, 077. Where do I set that, so when creating yet another new user, his home-dir will have rwx --- --- (0700)?? -- (SuSE10.2, plain vanilla)

Re: [opensuse] Default umask for new users, where?

2007-03-13 Thread Gaël Lams
Hi, - when I create a new user, the home-dir for that user is created with a umask of 022. I wish to use, say, 077. Where do I set that, so when creating yet another new user, his home-dir will have rwx --- --- (0700)?? in /etc/profile.local: umask 077 Gaël

[opensuse] Colorized output, echo via xargs.

2007-03-13 Thread Sylvester Lykkehus
Hi, Just playing around a bit with different colors in shell scripts, I've come across a problem colorings an output parsed through xargs. I'm sure it's just a question of escaping the string correctly. echo -e '\E32mTest' Prints the word Test in green. While echo Test test.txt cat

Re: [opensuse] Colorized output, echo via xargs. (Typos corrected)

2007-03-13 Thread Sylvester Lykkehus
Sylvester Lykkehus wrote: Hi, Just playing around a bit with different colors in shell scripts, I've come across a problem colorings an output parsed through xargs. I'm sure it's just a question of escaping the string correctly. /echo -e '\E32mTest' / echo -e '\E[32mTest' Prints the word

Re: [opensuse] Default umask for new users, where?

2007-03-13 Thread Joe Morris (NTM)
Gaël Lams wrote: - when I create a new user, the home-dir for that user is created with a umask of 022. I wish to use, say, 077. Where do I set that, so when creating yet another new user, his home-dir will have rwx --- --- (0700)?? in /etc/profile.local: umask 077 Or even better, Yast,

Re: [opensuse] Max filesize on NFS? 4G?

2007-03-13 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2007-03-12 at 21:04 -0700, Mike Noble wrote: I'm surprised to be hit by the small file limit on NFS. Is there some specific parameter I need to support large files? The same command, run locally on the server, runs fine (4GB ok),

Re: [opensuse] Default umask for new users, where?

2007-03-13 Thread Verner Kjærsgaard
Tirsdag 13 marts 2007 10:38 skrev Joe Morris (NTM): Gaël Lams wrote: - when I create a new user, the home-dir for that user is created with a umask of 022. I wish to use, say, 077. Where do I set that, so when creating yet another new user, his home-dir will have rwx --- --- (0700)??

[opensuse] streaming music

2007-03-13 Thread Phil Burness
I have a linux server in my study (upstairs) it has about 160GB of music on it. (Love Amarok) I have XP laptop downstairs (sound output connected to my amplifier). I have a wireless connection between the two. I want to play the music on my Linux box via my XP machine through my amplifier

Re: [opensuse] streaming music

2007-03-13 Thread Verner Kjærsgaard
Tirsdag 13 marts 2007 12:21 skrev Phil Burness: I have a linux server in my study (upstairs) it has about 160GB of music on it. (Love Amarok) I have XP laptop downstairs (sound output connected to my amplifier). I have a wireless connection between the two. I want to play the music on my

[opensuse] Re: streaming music

2007-03-13 Thread Craig Millar
On 13/03/07 11:21 +, Phil Burness wrote: I want to play the music on my Linux box via my XP machine through my amplifier downstairs when I'm not working in the study. Quite reasonable I think. I've looked at shoutcast, icecast and streamtunes all of which seem to need a playlist

Re: [opensuse] Re: streaming music

2007-03-13 Thread Arie Reynaldi Z
I want to play the music on my Linux box via my XP machine through my amplifier downstairs when I'm not working in the study. Quite reasonable I think. I've looked at shoutcast, icecast and streamtunes all of which seem to need a playlist configuring on the server, while I want to pick and

Re: [opensuse] Max filesize on NFS? 4G?

2007-03-13 Thread Teruel de Campo MD
Guys, The file size depends on the file system where it resides not of the CPU. Of course up to a degree. I remember from my os/2 days creating tar files of the whole system, I could do it in a JFS formatted partition but not in a fat because of size limitations. -=terry(Denver)=- On Mon,

Re: [opensuse] firewire drives backups

2007-03-13 Thread Dave Howorth
Greg Freemyer wrote: Don't ignore eSata (external sata) for the same purpose. (If you don't have an eSata connector you can get a Sata -- eSata cable for $10 or $20, just be sure it is 300 Gbit/sec rated.) Especially for Linux I believe the sata drivers are more actively maintained and

Re: [opensuse] Default umask for new users, where?

2007-03-13 Thread Gaël Lams
Hi, Yes, your answers concur with what I thought. Only, it only works for users local to the machine, i.e. they exist in /etc/passwd and so forth. For users being authenticated - and hence auto created - by means of winbind and AD, it doesn't work. It's got to be somewhere else, perhaps on the

[opensuse] Suse on a flash drive anybody?

2007-03-13 Thread jimmy Pierre
Greetings, Just wondering, our friends at Knoppix did it with v 5.1.1 and earlier and with read/write on NTFS partitions now. Mandriva is shipping a flash drive of 2GB for some tens of Euros. Has anybody attempted on suse? Later, Jimmy Pierre President Novell Users International - France

Re: [opensuse] Default umask for new users, where?

2007-03-13 Thread Verner Kjærsgaard
Tirsdag 13 marts 2007 13:32 skrev Gaël Lams: Hi, Yes, your answers concur with what I thought. Only, it only works for users local to the machine, i.e. they exist in /etc/passwd and so forth. For users being authenticated - and hence auto created - by means of winbind and AD, it doesn't

[opensuse] Where is the list administrator?

2007-03-13 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, We have bounces in the Spanish list, over a week. We have tried contacting the list admin (Henne), but we got no answer. Is he still on the job? - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5

Re: [opensuse] Max filesize on NFS? 4G?

2007-03-13 Thread Geir A. Myrestrand
Mike Noble wrote: On Sunday 11 March 2007 18:36, Linda Walsh wrote: I was just surprised by hitting a 4GB file limit on NFS -- am running Suse 10.2 on client (currently running SuSE2.6.18.2-34-bigsmp), and SuSE 9.3 (with vanilla 2.6.20) on server. The target file system (xfs) supports large

Re: [opensuse] Default umask for new users, where?(SOLVED)

2007-03-13 Thread Verner Kjærsgaard
Tirsdag 13 marts 2007 13:57 skrev Verner Kjærsgaard: Tirsdag 13 marts 2007 13:32 skrev Gaël Lams: Hi, [..] session requiredpam_limits.so session requiredpam_unix2.so session requiredpam_mkhomedir.so skel=/etc/skel/ umask=077 Hi Gaël and list, - sorry for not

Re: [opensuse] zmd mysteries

2007-03-13 Thread Stanislav Visnovsky
Dňa Št 8. Marec 2007 18:22 Paul Abrahams napísal: On Thursday 08 March 2007 7:40 am, Stanislav Visnovsky wrote: 2. Where can I find an overview of ZEN and its buddies? What kind of information are you looking for? What is ZEN? What does it do? 3. What is the current relationship

Re: [opensuse] Wireless mouse battery life [OT?]

2007-03-13 Thread jdd
pelibali wrote: 1,2V AAAs (850mAh) and they last no longer than 10 days with 1-2 hrs of daily work. The system is SUSE 9.1... my daughter stopped using such mice for that reason (and always on windows :-) jdd -- http://www.dodin.net Lucien Dodin, inventeur

Re: [opensuse] Wireless mouse battery life [OT?]

2007-03-13 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-03-13 at 14:25 +0100, pelibali wrote: but maybe the mouse background is also an important point. e.g. I use a pretty white and almost flat plate now, where sometimes I see my pointer shaking, without even touching the mouse. I

Re: [opensuse] beryl-settings on SLED 10

2007-03-13 Thread Matthias Hopf
On Mar 09, 07 08:53:09 -0500, Abstract wrote: There is only one beryl tutorial I follow and that is the only one that seems official to me. The others have completely messed up my system. That can be found here http://wiki.beryl-project.org/wiki/Install_Beryl_on_SuSE In that case,

Re: [opensuse] NVidia driver and acpi on 10.2

2007-03-13 Thread Matthias Hopf
On Mar 10, 07 21:26:55 -0800, Mike Noble wrote: I have tried installing the rpm's from SuSe and downloading the drivers from Nvidia, none of them have worked yet. What I get is when it starts graphic mode, it just goes blank and the system is locked. Basically it tells that the driver can

Re: [opensuse] Wireless mouse battery life [OT?]

2007-03-13 Thread Joe Morris (NTM)
pelibali wrote: In the case of my brother's laptop the USB ports are at the side where he uses the mouse (right side), but my Acer has ports only on the another, left side. Could that 15cm-40cm (~3x) make such decre- ase in the battery life(s)? That is the only thing that makes sense. I

Re: [opensuse] graphics question

2007-03-13 Thread Matthias Hopf
On Mar 08, 07 16:42:04 -0600, Stevens wrote: I put 10.2 in an old Gateway P3/900MHz box that has an ATI Rage 128 Pro Ultra TF video card. It seems to work ok with mplayer and DukeNukem and others. . glxgears reports 3249 frames in 5.0 seconds = 649.740 FPS and the animation is nice and

RE: [opensuse] firewire drives backups

2007-03-13 Thread Jack Malone
I use this on my machines that have usb 1.1. However for machines that have usb2, you will find that usb is faster than firewire. I backup using BRU, (paid - but worth the price) and it builds a compressed tar-like file directly on the target drive, rather than a file by file copy.

Re: [opensuse] streaming music

2007-03-13 Thread Philippe Andersson
Phil Burness wrote: I have a linux server in my study (upstairs) it has about 160GB of music on it. (Love Amarok) I have XP laptop downstairs (sound output connected to my amplifier). I have a wireless connection between the two. I want to play the music on my Linux box via my XP machine

Re: [opensuse] graphics question

2007-03-13 Thread Matthias Hopf
On Mar 13, 07 08:56:40 -0500, Stevens wrote: Thank you for your reply. I may try that later today to see if it works, Don't hold your breath. It's absolutely unsure whether you're hitting configuration issues or even hardware limitations. Don't know whether it is worth the hassle. but i just

Re: [opensuse] samba vs cifs ... what's the diff?

2007-03-13 Thread Dan Winship
On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 00:01 -0500, Peter Van Lone wrote: On 3/12/07, John Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: smbfs and cifs are file systems that allow your Linux box to MOUNT a share published by a samab server or a windows box. (perhaps to do a backup or some such) ahh .. ok, perfect.

[opensuse] Wireless mouse battery life [OT?]

2007-03-13 Thread pelibali
Hi, I have a Fujitsu Siemens Mini RF.Mouse wireless mouse connected to my laptop via its own USB dongle. First I used normal 1,5V AAA-type batteries and max. 2 weeks they were empty. Now I'm using rechargeable 1,2V AAAs (850mAh) and they last no longer than 10 days with 1-2 hrs of daily work. The

Re: [opensuse] Colorized output, echo via xargs. (Typos corrected)

2007-03-13 Thread James Wright
On Tuesday 13 March 2007 05:46, Sylvester Lykkehus wrote: Sylvester Lykkehus wrote: Hi, Just playing around a bit with different colors in shell scripts, I've come across a problem colorings an output parsed through xargs. I'm sure it's just a question of escaping the string

Re: [opensuse] SATA RAID recommendations?

2007-03-13 Thread Philipp Thomas
* jdd ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20070311 13:01]: sorry if I seem silly, but how can any raid controller work without any software? if not in user space nor kernel space; it must be somewhere onboard? That answer isn't that silly :) The hardware RAID controllers also need software, but in the

Re: [opensuse] Wireless mouse battery life [OT?]

2007-03-13 Thread Joe Morris (NTM)
pelibali wrote: In the case of my brother's laptop the USB ports are at the side where he uses the mouse (right side), but my Acer has ports only on the another, left side. Could that 15cm-40cm (~3x) make such decre- ase in the battery life(s)? Also one other thought. Are your laptop's

[opensuse] No microphone input

2007-03-13 Thread Teemu Nikkilä
Hi, my laptop's (ThinkPad T41p, Intel 82801DB-ICH4) internal microphone stopped working for applications. I can't record anymore with krecord or Audacity, nor can I use Skype for talking. The hardware works since I can hear the micropone output from headphones or speakers and I can adjust the

Re: [opensuse] Wireless mouse battery life [OT?]

2007-03-13 Thread Dave Howorth
pelibali wrote: Hi, I have a Fujitsu Siemens Mini RF.Mouse wireless mouse connected to my laptop via its own USB dongle. First I used normal 1,5V AAA-type batteries and max. 2 weeks they were empty. Now I'm using rechargeable 1,2V AAAs (850mAh) and they last no longer than 10 days with 1-2

Re: [opensuse] firewire drives backups

2007-03-13 Thread Greg Freemyer
On 3/13/07, Dave Howorth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greg Freemyer wrote: Don't ignore eSata (external sata) for the same purpose. (If you don't have an eSata connector you can get a Sata -- eSata cable for $10 or $20, just be sure it is 300 Gbit/sec rated.) Especially for Linux I believe the

[opensuse] kickoff and recently used applications

2007-03-13 Thread Gianluca Cerminara
Hello, at some point my kickoff menu stopped displaying recently used applications (I can only get recently used files...) Do you know how to fix this?How does kickoff handles recently used applications?Which are the configuration files I should look for? Thanks a lot, G --

Re: [opensuse] firewire drives backups

2007-03-13 Thread Greg Freemyer
On 3/13/07, Jack Malone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use this on my machines that have usb 1.1. However for machines that have usb2, you will find that usb is faster than firewire. I backup using BRU, (paid - but worth the price) and it builds a compressed tar-like file directly on the

Re: [opensuse] Suse on a flash drive anybody?

2007-03-13 Thread jdd
jimmy Pierre wrote: Greetings, Just wondering, our friends at Knoppix did it with v 5.1.1 and earlier and with read/write on NTFS partitions now. Mandriva is shipping a flash drive of 2GB for some tens of Euros. Has anybody attempted on suse? there is a link somewhere on the wiki, but I

[opensuse] Direct2Dell - Dell's Blog

2007-03-13 Thread jim tate
Dell is taking a Linux survey, goto site below and post your opinion. I know this not the proper place to post this, but I think all linux user should benefit from this. http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/2007/03/13/7985.aspx?CommentPosted=true#commentmessage -- To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: [opensuse] Colorized output, echo via xargs.

2007-03-13 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Tuesday 13 March 2007 02:42, Sylvester Lykkehus wrote: Hi, Just playing around a bit with different colors in shell scripts, I've come across a problem colorings an output parsed through xargs. I'm sure it's just a question of escaping the string correctly. echo -e '\E32mTest' Prints

Re: [opensuse] Suse on a flash drive anybody?

2007-03-13 Thread Philip Mötteli
Am 13.03.2007 um 14:05 schrieb jdd: jimmy Pierre wrote: Greetings, Just wondering, our friends at Knoppix did it with v 5.1.1 and earlier and with read/write on NTFS partitions now. Mandriva is shipping a flash drive of 2GB for some tens of Euros. Has anybody attempted on suse? there is

Re: [opensuse] Colorized output, echo via xargs.

2007-03-13 Thread Sylvester Lykkehus
Randall R Schulz wrote: On Tuesday 13 March 2007 02:42, Sylvester Lykkehus wrote: echo -e '\E32mTest' Prints the word Test in green. Here you're invoking the shell's built-in echo command, which interprets \E: While echo Test test.txt cat test.txt | xargs -i echo -e '\E32m{}'

Re: [opensuse] samba vs cifs ... what's the diff?

2007-03-13 Thread Kai Ponte
On Tuesday 13 March 2007 06:37:48 am Dan Winship wrote: On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 00:01 -0500, Peter Van Lone wrote: On 3/12/07, John Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: smbfs and cifs are file systems that allow your Linux box to MOUNT a share published by a samab server or a windows box.

Re: [opensuse] Suse on a flash drive anybody?

2007-03-13 Thread jdd
Philip Mötteli wrote: Am 13.03.2007 um 14:05 schrieb jdd: jimmy Pierre wrote: Greetings, Just wondering, our friends at Knoppix did it with v 5.1.1 and earlier and with read/write on NTFS partitions now. Mandriva is shipping a flash drive of 2GB for some tens of Euros. Has anybody attempted

[opensuse] screensaver in gnome.

2007-03-13 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I had it working somehow, but it broke two or three days ago. I have the screen saver popping up after about 15 minutes inactivity; but I want the monitor to go blank, dpms mode, after, say, 5 minutes more. I don't see where to configure

Re: [opensuse] Colorized output, echo via xargs.

2007-03-13 Thread Dr. Werner Fink
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 05:00:18PM +0100, Sylvester Lykkehus wrote: Randall R Schulz wrote: On Tuesday 13 March 2007 02:42, Sylvester Lykkehus wrote: echo -e '\E32mTest' Prints the word Test in green. Here you're invoking the shell's built-in echo command, which interprets \E:

Re: [opensuse] screensaver in gnome.

2007-03-13 Thread Rodrigo Moya
On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 17:06 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I had it working somehow, but it broke two or three days ago. I have the screen saver popping up after about 15 minutes inactivity; but I want the monitor to go blank, dpms mode,

Re: [opensuse] Suse on a flash drive anybody?

2007-03-13 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 16:46 +0100, Philip Mötteli wrote: Am 13.03.2007 um 14:05 schrieb jdd: jimmy Pierre wrote: Greetings, Just wondering, our friends at Knoppix did it with v 5.1.1 and earlier and with read/write on NTFS partitions now. Mandriva is shipping a flash drive of 2GB

Re: [opensuse] streaming music

2007-03-13 Thread Damon Register
Phil Burness wrote: I have a linux server in my study (upstairs) it has about 160GB of music on it. (Love Amarok) I am learning to like it too I have XP laptop downstairs (sound output connected to my amplifier). I have a wireless connection between the two. I have a very similar setup

Re: [opensuse] Wireless mouse battery life [OT?]

2007-03-13 Thread Damon Register
pelibali wrote: batteries and max. 2 weeks they were empty. Now I'm using rechargeable 1,2V AAAs (850mAh) and they last no longer than 10 days with 1-2 hrs I am using a Logitech trackball wireless mouse on my PC tower and a wired version on my son's notebook PC. The battery in the wireless

Re: [opensuse] Shorewall

2007-03-13 Thread Jon Clausen
On Mon, 12 Mar, 2007 at 20:46:19 -0700, Mike Noble wrote: On Monday 12 March 2007 19:21, John Andersen wrote: On Monday 12 March 2007, Theo v. Werkhoven wrote: Tue, 06 Mar 2007, by [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Since I'm no rpm expert either I'm not going to 'publish' said rpms, as they

Re: [opensuse] No microphone input

2007-03-13 Thread Daniel Feiglin
Hi! I was one of the culprits from an earlier post on this. I use 10.2 + KDE. I found that some of the default kmix settings were wrong: On the Switches tab of the kmix dialog, set Line-in Mode to Line-In and Mic-In mode to Mic-In. On the Input tab, make sure that Mic (little red LED style

[opensuse] Remote install/upgrade of SUSE (updated)

2007-03-13 Thread Matthew Stringer
Hi, I asked about how to do this a few weeks ago. I got sent a useful HOWTO cheers. But I've run into a bit of trouble that makes little sense. I've several machines all 'white boxes' all kinds of motherboards etc. some of them are Intel P4 based and others AMD Athlon. If I go through the

[opensuse] [SLE] Slow transfers from Linux Server

2007-03-13 Thread Tim Hempstead
Hi, I am having performance issues with my file server running SUSE Linux 10.0 (64bit on an Athlon64). The systems data disks consist of 4 200GB Samsung SATA drives on separate onboard ports on the motherboard which are then configured together as md0 using Linux software raid5 (giving 600GB

Re: [opensuse] Suse on a flash drive anybody?

2007-03-13 Thread Sunny
On 3/13/07, Roger Oberholtzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On a similar topic, does anyone have a vmware image for OpenSUSE 10.2? I would settle for an autoyast file that selects a decent subset that I can then install myself. Anyone seen such a thing? Search for vmware on this page (the image is

[opensuse] mod_userdir directory listings not working

2007-03-13 Thread Paul Nowosielski
Dear All, I'm trying to get directory listings working in Suse 10.2,apache2 with mod_userdir. But when I call the directory I get a 404 error. in the logs I see [Tue Mar 13 11:56:19 2007] [error] [client 192.168.45.252] Attempt to serve directory: /home/jreitsma/public_html/ My apache

Re: [opensuse] Rug problem...

2007-03-13 Thread Stanislav Visnovsky
Dne sobota 10 březen 2007 11:14 Anders Norrbring napsal(a): Now what do I do about this? I'm trying to add a installation source, by running 'rug sa', and I get this: ERROR: Could not add 'ftp://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/suse/suse/update/10.2': Failed to parse XML metadata: A null value

Re: [opensuse] screensaver in gnome.

2007-03-13 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-03-13 at 17:28 +0100, Rodrigo Moya wrote: don't see where to configure this, there is no setting in the screensaver control. How do I do it? It used to be possible a year or two ago. use gnome-power-manager

Re: [opensuse] [SLE] Slow transfers from Linux Server

2007-03-13 Thread John Andersen
On Tuesday 13 March 2007, Tim Hempstead wrote: Accessing the system via samba from a Windows XP box seems quite slow as does accessing it via SFTP, (a sustained SFTP transfer using Filezilla peaked at 310kb/s a 670MB iso image has just taken 35+ minutes to transfer across between them).

[opensuse] remote install of suse 10.0

2007-03-13 Thread James D. Parra
Hello, I copied the DVD contents of Suse 10.0 onto a server share. The 64 bit version should be there as well I hope. From a remote machine, which only has a cd drive, I use the Suse 10 CD to begin the install, however it the installer notifies me that I am installing a 32 bit OS on a 64 bit

Re: [opensuse] No microphone input

2007-03-13 Thread Gabriel .
Hi, I have the problem in my Dell XPS M1210.Could anybody help me.? thanks a lot. On 3/13/07, Daniel Feiglin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I was one of the culprits from an earlier post on this. I use 10.2 + KDE. I found that some of the default kmix settings were wrong: On the Switches tab

Re: [opensuse] Suse on a flash drive anybody?

2007-03-13 Thread Richard Bos
Op dinsdag 13 maart 2007 17:22, schreef Roger Oberholtzer: On a similar topic, does anyone have a vmware image for OpenSUSE 10.2? I would settle for an autoyast file that selects a decent subset that I can then install myself. Anyone seen such a thing? http://developer.kde.org/~binner/vmware/

Re: [opensuse] [SLE] Slow transfers from Linux Server

2007-03-13 Thread Anders Johansson
Am Dienstag, den 13.03.2007, 09:50 -0900 schrieb John Andersen: I just copied a 350meg iso across 100mbit network via samba in under 10 minutes. It pegged my linux nic at 7.4 meg for the duration according to gkrellm. I normally see 10M traffic in gkrellm when I copy stuff to and from my nfs

Re: [opensuse] Wireless mouse battery life [OT?]

2007-03-13 Thread peter nikolic
On Tuesday 13 March 2007, pelibali wrote: Hi, I have a Fujitsu Siemens Mini RF.Mouse wireless mouse connected to my laptop via its own USB dongle. First I used normal 1,5V AAA-type batteries and max. 2 weeks they were empty. Now I'm using rechargeable 1,2V AAAs (850mAh) and they last no

Re: [opensuse] [SLE] Slow transfers from Linux Server

2007-03-13 Thread John Andersen
On Tuesday 13 March 2007, Anders Johansson wrote: Am Dienstag, den 13.03.2007, 09:50 -0900 schrieb John Andersen: I just copied a 350meg iso across 100mbit network via samba in under 10 minutes. It pegged my linux nic at 7.4 meg for the duration according to gkrellm. I normally see 10M

Re: [opensuse] Wireless mouse battery life [OT?]

2007-03-13 Thread John Andersen
On Tuesday 13 March 2007, peter nikolic wrote: On Tuesday 13 March 2007, pelibali wrote: Hi, I have a Fujitsu Siemens Mini RF.Mouse wireless mouse connected to my laptop via its own USB dongle. First I used normal 1,5V AAA-type batteries and max. 2 weeks they were empty. Now I'm using

Re: [opensuse] Shorewall (was; Re: [opensuse] Martin Glötzl-Koch STOP BOUNCING LIST MAIL)

2007-03-13 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
John Andersen escribió: Since I'm no rpm expert either I'm not going to 'publish' said rpms, as they probably contain packaging errors. Still, if someone wants to check them out, contact me privately. I can create those rpms, in fact I should ;P Suse would be better off spending the time

[opensuse] french parliament moves to ubuntu

2007-03-13 Thread riccardo35
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Re: [opensuse] Remote install/upgrade of SUSE (updated)

2007-03-13 Thread M Harris
On Tuesday 13 March 2007 12:31, Matthew Stringer wrote: Can anyone explain what the deal is with this, If I install SUSE using a CD it always works so why is this any different and why would it matter that it's AMD? Confused. Have you tried turning ACPI off? -- Kind regards, M

Re: [opensuse] streaming music

2007-03-13 Thread Phil Burness
On Tuesday 13 March 2007 14:01:42 Philippe Andersson wrote: Phil Burness wrote: I have a linux server in my study (upstairs) it has about 160GB of music on it. (Love Amarok) I have XP laptop downstairs (sound output connected to my amplifier). I have a wireless connection between the two.

Re: [opensuse] remote install of suse 10.0

2007-03-13 Thread Sunny
On 3/13/07, James D. Parra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I copied the DVD contents of Suse 10.0 onto a server share. The 64 bit version should be there as well I hope. From a remote machine, which only has a cd drive, I use the Suse 10 CD to begin the install, however it the installer

Re: [opensuse] streaming music

2007-03-13 Thread Phil Burness
On Tuesday 13 March 2007 16:39:24 Damon Register wrote: Phil Burness wrote: I have a linux server in my study (upstairs) it has about 160GB of music on it. (Love Amarok) I am learning to like it too I have XP laptop downstairs (sound output connected to my amplifier). I have a wireless

Re: [opensuse] [SLE] Slow transfers from Linux Server

2007-03-13 Thread Sunny
On 3/13/07, John Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think you will find that on local networks where nothing is less than 100meg that ssh is quite a bit slower than a well tuned nfs. As you said the magic word well tuned nfs ... :) Please, define well-tuned. Or direct me to a very nice

RE: [opensuse] Suse on a flash drive anybody?

2007-03-13 Thread Jimmy Pierre (Gmail)
Maybe I am not good at Google, but found many distros on USB drives and not Suse. Any idea if this has been successful before. Cheers, Jimmy -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[opensuse] No microphone input

2007-03-13 Thread jpff
I am another one who was having trouble with microphone input; well actually i am still having problems. This is on a Thinkpad X40; I can hear input from the mic in the headphones, and with mic boost I can hear the feedback. Audacity does not give any input from recording. Last time I tried

[opensuse] [SLE] Slow transfers from Linux Server

2007-03-13 Thread Tim Hempstead
John, Ok, I've tested again with both samba and SFTP. Samba is significantly quicker than SFTP with the iso file copying in ~5-6 minutes instead of the 35+ being shown by SFTP. But looking at top whilst the processes are running the system is doing virtually nothing during both transfers,

Re: [opensuse] Wireless mouse battery life [OT?]

2007-03-13 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Tuesday 13 March 2007 09:25, pelibali wrote: Hi, I have a Fujitsu Siemens Mini RF.Mouse wireless mouse connected to my laptop via its own USB dongle. First I used normal 1,5V AAA-type batteries and max. 2 weeks they were empty. Now I'm using rechargeable 1,2V AAAs (850mAh) and they last

Re: [opensuse] [SLE] Slow transfers from Linux Server

2007-03-13 Thread Magnus Boman
On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 16:17 -0500, Sunny wrote: On 3/13/07, John Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think you will find that on local networks where nothing is less than 100meg that ssh is quite a bit slower than a well tuned nfs. As you said the magic word well tuned nfs ... :)

Re: [opensuse] Wireless mouse battery life [OT?]

2007-03-13 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Tuesday 13 March 2007 10:41, Dave Howorth wrote: pelibali wrote: Hi, I have a Fujitsu Siemens Mini RF.Mouse wireless mouse connected to my laptop via its own USB dongle. First I used normal 1,5V AAA-type batteries and max. 2 weeks they were empty. Now I'm using rechargeable 1,2V

Re: [opensuse] [SLE] Slow transfers from Linux Server

2007-03-13 Thread John Andersen
On Tuesday 13 March 2007, Sunny wrote: Please, define well-tuned. Or direct me to a very nice tutorial for this. Oh, no you don't Fella! ;-) I am not an nfs techie. I know very little about it, and only use if for MythTV shares, and I took the parms directly out of the mythtv how-to. So I'm

Re: [opensuse] [SLE] Slow transfers from Linux Server

2007-03-13 Thread John Andersen
On Tuesday 13 March 2007, Tim Hempstead wrote: John, Ok, I've tested again with both samba and SFTP. Samba is significantly quicker than SFTP with the iso file copying in ~5-6 minutes instead of the 35+ being shown by SFTP. But looking at top whilst the processes are running the system is

Re: [opensuse] [SLE] Slow transfers from Linux Server

2007-03-13 Thread Tim Hempstead
Its certainly strange, the samba transfer rate is more the sort of level I was expecting. Top is supposedly showing nice time as well, and running a straight sar instead also gave the same results. Disabling ipv6, UseDNS(*), compression on the SFTP windows client all made little or no

Re: [opensuse] mod_userdir directory listings not working

2007-03-13 Thread Carl Hartung
On Tue March 13 2007 15:13, Paul Nowosielski wrote: Any ideas to solve this?? Hi Paul, I think this is a minor configuration oversight in YaST since 10.1. Try the following: edit /etc/sysconfig/apache2, and set:   APACHE_CONF_INCLUDE_FILES=extra/httpd-userdir.conf save, run 'rcapache2

RE: [opensuse] remote install of suse 10.0

2007-03-13 Thread James D. Parra
On 3/13/07, James D. Parra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I copied the DVD contents of Suse 10.0 onto a server share. The 64 bit version should be there as well I hope. From a remote machine, which only has a cd drive, I use the Suse 10 CD to begin the install, however it the installer

Re: [opensuse] smbmount failed??

2007-03-13 Thread Paul Abrahams
On Tuesday 13 March 2007 12:12 am, James D. Parra wrote: I'm connecting to our windows' shares using names instead IP addresses using cifs and not experiencing any problems (Suse 9.1 -10.0). What is it that can't be done using cifs? One thing I noticed that I prefer using cifs over smbfs is

Re: [opensuse] samba vs cifs ... what's the diff?

2007-03-13 Thread Paul Abrahams
On Tuesday 13 March 2007 9:37 am, Dan Winship wrote: The distinction you *can* make is between smbfs, which is an old, unmaintained and partly-broken SMB/CIFS client kernel module for Linux, and cifs, which is a newer, actively-developed SMB/CIFS client kernel module for Linux. The fact that

Re: [opensuse] smbmount failed??

2007-03-13 Thread Joe Morris (NTM)
Paul Abrahams wrote: I have hostnames on my LAN that smbfs can resolve but cifs cannot. The answer use a fixed IP address is not very satisfying if you're running fully dynamic DHCP. Could you define what you mean by fully dynamic DHCP? If your DHCP server is changing IP addresses

Re: [opensuse] Remote install/upgrade of SUSE (updated)

2007-03-13 Thread Joe Morris (NTM)
Matthew Stringer wrote: However it makes no sense, I've tried blanking the MBR record and then installing GRUB but it makes no difference the machines always just die after POST. I've killed 4 machines now and have a 600 Mile round trip to go n fix them. I wonder if it is related to the

Re: [opensuse] Wireless mouse battery life [OT?]

2007-03-13 Thread Robert Smits
On Tuesday 13 March 2007 09:54, Damon Register wrote: pelibali wrote: batteries and max. 2 weeks they were empty. Now I'm using rechargeable 1,2V AAAs (850mAh) and they last no longer than 10 days with 1-2 hrs I am using a Logitech trackball wireless mouse on my PC tower and a wired

[opensuse] openSUSE, IBM ServeRAID, I/O Errors

2007-03-13 Thread Adam Williams
I have an IBM xSeries with an IBM ServeRAID controller running openSUSE 10.1. Previously, for years, this server ran SuSE 9.2 and was absolutely ROCK solid. However, now it is constantly logging I/O errors, but no drive ever goes offline. It really seems to be a problem with the logical

Re: [opensuse] Wireless mouse battery life [OT?]

2007-03-13 Thread John Andersen
On Tuesday 13 March 2007, Robert Smits wrote: On Tuesday 13 March 2007 09:54, Damon Register wrote: pelibali wrote: batteries and max. 2 weeks they were empty. Now I'm using rechargeable 1,2V AAAs (850mAh) and they last no longer than 10 days with 1-2 hrs I am using a Logitech

Re: [opensuse] Wireless mouse battery life [OT?]

2007-03-13 Thread Robert Lewis
John Andersen wrote: On Tuesday 13 March 2007, Robert Smits wrote: On Tuesday 13 March 2007 09:54, Damon Register wrote: pelibali wrote: batteries and max. 2 weeks they were empty. Now I'm using rechargeable 1,2V AAAs (850mAh) and they last no longer than 10 days with 1-2

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